1 V. D. Bonch-Bruevich — active participant in the October Uprising in Petrograd; was commandant of the Smolny—Tauride district, chairman of the commission on combating pogroms, banditry and counter-revolution. In 1917—1920 — manager of the affairs of the Council of People's Commissars.

2 This concerns an attempt on V. I. Lenin's life on the night of December 31, 1917 to January 1, 1918, when he was returning from a rally accompanied by the Swiss communist F. Platten. F. Platten shielded Vladimir Ilyich's head and was wounded in the arm.

On the night of January 2 (15) to 3 (16), 1918, an extraordinary session of the Council of People's Commissars took place, at which the question of opening the Constituent Assembly and the attempt on V. I. Lenin were discussed. The Commissars congratulated V. I. Lenin on his deliverance from the danger that threatened him. The Council of People's Commissars recognized it necessary to issue a warning that "the workers' and peasants' government will answer with terror if there are further attempts on the lives of representatives of the Council of People's Commissars" (TsPA IML at the CC CPSU).

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## EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH M. S. URITSKY
[January 5 (18), 1918]

To Uritsky:

At what time was the volley fired? 10? 10½?

What part of Shpalernaya? Between Liteiny and Znamenskaya? Near Liteiny in the direction of Tauride?

*Approximately at 10¼ — 10½ between Voskresinskaya and Tavricheskaya on Shpalernaya. The glass was shattered on the left side. The volley was from above, apparently from the right.*

*M. U.*

Answer here!

Lenin

1 M. S. Uritsky was appointed in November 1917 as commissar of the "All-Russian Commission on Elections to the Constituent Assembly." The note was written on the day the Constituent Assembly was opened.

LENIN COLLECTION

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## NOTE TO V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH
[1918, January, not earlier than 7 (20)]

Of course, they must be arrested.

And to convene the Central Executive Committee, send this note to Sverdlov².

Lenin

1 V. D. Bonch-Bruevich in his note informed V. I. Lenin of anarchist actions by a group of sailors—participants in the murder of the ministers of the Provisional bourgeois government A. I. Shingarev and F. F. Kokoshkin in the Mariinsky Hospital on the night of January 6-7, 1918, requested V. I. Lenin's opinion on the arrest of the sailors and proposed to convene a session of the Central Executive Committee in connection with these events (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 50, pp. 25-26, 411).

2 Y. M. Sverdlov — chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

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## NOTE TO V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH
January 8 (21), 1918

To V. D. Bonch-Bruevich

Write out how things stand with the arrest of the murderers. Is it true that they don't want to hand over Kreys¹?

Lenin

1 Kreys—anarchist sailor, one of the participants in the murder of the ministers of the Provisional bourgeois government A. I. Shingarev and F. F. Kokoshkin.

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## ORDER TO L. N. STARK
January 8 (21), 1918

Comrade Stark!

On the basis of a report from comrade Radek², I request that you contact comrade Shotman (member of the collegium of posts and telegraph)³ on the question of providing radio for the most important communications of the PTA⁴.

Lenin